Bug 120314

Summary: Can't import non-local files - even ones which are (e.g. media:/)
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: David Anderson <david>
Component: kmailcvtAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description David Anderson 2006-01-17 16:03:46 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

I regularly use kmailcvt to import files from a USB key (I author e-mails on another computer, then copy them over to the Internet-connected machine). To import them into kmail, I use kmailcvt.

kmailcvt refuses to accept media:/ URLs, complaining that they are non-local. However, they often (always?) aren't (e.g. on my machine+key media:/sda/ is just /media/usbdisk1/). It seems that kmailcvt lacks the relevant functions to convert media:/ URLs (and system:/ ones) to the local filesystem location. It would be good to either fix that, or in fact recode it so that it is completely kioslave friendly (i.e. whether truly local or not - why can't I import files over FTP?).
Comment 1 Danny Kukawka 2006-08-29 17:25:21 UTC 
I can't reproduce the problem with media:/ with KDE: 3.5.4 Level "a"/KMail: 1.9.4 ... could you check this with current KDE/KMail and add a plan how to reproduce this? 

I would close the bug as WORKSFORME
Comment 2 David Anderson 2006-09-07 15:28:09 UTC 
Same for me - now works. (kmailcvt now appears to translate to a location in the filesystem and uses that).